Clothes-washer.



J. W. WHITELY.

CLOTHES WASHER.

I APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1910. 9?19' QB Patented Sept. 27, 1910?.

= E II WITNESSES:

JOHN W. VFHITELY, F DANBUBY, CONNECTICUT.

CLOTHES-WASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented dept. 2%,

Application filed June 7, 1910. Serial No. 565,631.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. \Vnrrnnr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Danbury, county of Fair-field, State of Connecticut, haveinvented an Improvement in Clothes-Embers, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensiveclothes washer adapted to be used in ordinary laundry tubs, which shallbe within the reach of all, shall not easily get out of repair, and willdo away with the washboard and the necessity for putting the hands inhot water.

With these and other objects in view I have devised a novel washer whichis itself rncved over the clothes as they lie in the tub,

. 2'. e. rubbed upon the clothes instead of it being necessary for theclothes to be rubbed upon a board in order to cleanse them.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure1 is an end elevation of my novel washer; Fig. 2 a side elevationthereof; Fig. 3 a detail view on an enlarged scale, showing theconstruction of the roller; Fig. 4 an end elevation of one of the rollerheads as secnfrom the right in Fig. 8, the tie rods and a. portion ofthe rubbing strips being in sect-ion; and Fig. 5 is a section on theline 5 5 in. Fig. 4, looking in the direction of the arrows, and showingthe shaft and side piece.

My novel washer comprises simply a roller of peculiar construction and aframe or carrier for the roller. The frame comprises side pieces 10 anda plurality of cross pieces 11 by which the side pieces are spaced apartand secured rigidly in position and which also serve as hand pieces. Theroller, which is mounted to rotate at one end of the frame, comprisesessentially heads or end disks 1'3. rubbing strips'13, which arepreferably of wood, and a plurality of tie rods '14. The heads areprovided on their inner faces near their peripheries with bosses 15.These bosses are shown as elongated and as provided with roundedends'alihough it should be understood that the invention is not limitedto any special configuration of the bosses and rubbing strips. Theoperatiw portions of. the rubbing strips project beyond the peripheriesof the heads, as clearly shown in the drawing, each operative portionconsisting of a plurality of planes, indicated by 1 6, which lie at anobtuse angle to each other. In the present, instance, I

have shown the operative portions of these stripsas comprising a topplane and two side planes. Below the side planes on opposite. sidesofthe strip are retaining grooves 1 17 which receive the bosses. Therubbing strips are so spaced apart as to give what i have found inpractice to be the most effec tive action upon the articles to be wash"the bases of the strips being spaced enough apart to leave passages 18bctwi in them through which the water may circulate freely. Inassembling, the ends of the rubbing strips are placed between the bosseson inner faces of the respective heads or end pieces, each rubbing stripbeing securely held between two bosses at each crid, clearly shown inFig. 4. The ends of the tie rods are passed through holes 15; in theheads which. are surrounded by countersunk recesses 20 which receivenuts ngagmg the threaded ends of the tie rods, the nuts and the ends ofthe rods both lying slightly below the outer faces of the heads, leavingno projections on the ends of the roller. It is of course immaterial sofar as the principleof the invention is concerned whether the rollerturns on a shaft which is fixed in the frame or the roller is fixed to ashaft which turns in the frame. In the present instance I have shown theheads as prd vided with holes 2:2 through which a shaft 23 passes, theroller turning freely on the shaft which is secured in the frame by sopins 24. I

25 denotes bearing plates which are preferably placed between the headsof the roller and the side pieces of the frame. Tb bearing plates may besecured to the by a drive fit or may if preferred be scour f to the sidepieces by screws.

The operation of my novcl washcr will. b,- obvious from the(lGSCl'lpl'lOIl already given.

The clothes or other articles to be cleansed 106 planes of the rubbingstrips. By changing the position of the ciothes in the tub pram ticallyall portions of the articies to he cleansed may be subjected t0 therubbing and pressing action of the strips. I

Having-thus described my invention 1 claim "the heads and rubbing stripsare secured to Jgether.

2. A roller of the character described comprising heads having bosses ontheir inner faces, and conntersunk recesses in their outer faces rubbingstrips having grooves to receive the hesses, and tie rods havingthreaded ends engaged by nuts lying in the recesses.

3. A roller of the character described comprising heads having bosses ontheir inner faces st rip's having rubbing planes lying at an pbtuseangle to each other and grooves to receive the bosses and tie rods bywhich the heads and rubbing strlps are secured together in 'tES L11DOI1yWilf0f I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. v

JOHN 'W. WHITELY.

Witnesses CHARLES J. KVIIITELY, JOHN W HALEY.

